I was bored and nearly my bedtime. So I decided to post this before then. Leave positive reviews and enjoy!
It was nearly sunset as Penny drives the kids home. Throughout the ride home, Amy and Sheldon both fell asleep in the backseat hugging their stuffed animals.
Penny parked the car and then gently woke them up.
"Hey. Wake up kids, we're back."
Both woke up and rubbed their eyes which she finds so adorable.
They got out of the car and walked upstairs which really tires the kids out. Amy leans against the wall tiredly and Sheldon misses a step on the stairs nearly falling. Penny noticed that the kids are quite sleepy from a long and crazy day and at their much younger age, they still need their naps.
She offers, "Do you want me to carry either of you?"
The two shook their heads no.
She stops and kneels to their level.
"It's alright if you don't like me touching you. I just wanted to help," she assures them gently. "Just trust me. Everything will be alright."
Very slowly, Amy came forward to Penny trusting her to be carried. Penny wraps her arms around the little girl and picks her up to carry her the rest of the way. And trusting her, she rests her head on Penny's shoulder and closing her little tired eyes clutching her monkey tight.
Penny leads Sheldon upstairs to the forth floor while carrying Amy. As soon as they reached, Penny whispers, "Can you open the door sweetie?"
He opened the door and they went inside finding Leonard at his desk using his laptop. When he heard the door open. He turned around asking, "Hey? Where did you guys go?"
Penny whispers, "Be right back." She carries a now sleeping Amy to their bedroom and lays her down. She ushers Sheldon to climb onto the bed. He's too sleepy to even protest. He just hugged his Koala tightly and went to sleep too. Penny pulls a blanket over the two and closes the door quietly.
She walks back to the living room where Leonard waits. She greeted him with a kiss.
"How are the kids?" Leonard asked.
She sighs, "Handled well… They're really tuckered out."
"Yeah, it's been a long day for them and for us… We should probably schedule a short nap for them."
She agrees, "Yeah. They really are tired, they could barely make it up the stairs. I had to carry Amy."
Leonard asked surprised, "Really? Thought she doesn't like to be touched at all!"
"It only takes a bit to earn her trust. Just be patient Leonard…"
Thinking for a moment, he nodded in agreement. He asked, "Where did you guys go?"
"We went to the zoo. Mainly spent so much time with the monkeys and koalas."
Leonard says still sitting at his laptop, "Oh yeah, they love those so much they won't stop talking about them."
"You will never believe this! Sheldon went into the koala exhibit and got to cuddle with them," she says smiling.
He didn't believe her. "Your kidding."
"No! It actually happened! Look at the video!" She takes out her phone and shows him the video of Sheldon cuddling with koalas. Penny was heard laughing in the background of the video. That surprises Leonard.
"There's so many things wrong with this. Sheldon wouldn't touch anything or anyone!"
Penny replied, "Oh I gave him a ton of purell and baby wipes when he came out."
"This is crazy- oh it's got three million hits." He looked at the viewing of the video.
"They'll say it's the cutest video of the year! We'll be rich!" She says excited giving him another kiss.
Leonard sighed, "Still. That's kind of a bad example of what a parent would do."
She scoffed, "Said the man who left two children in a lab full of dangerous chemicals and a laser."
"They didn't touch the laser, thank goodness for that."
"And yelling at them like that?"
"I didn't mean it. My mother would get upset with me whenever I did something."
Penny thought for a moment and says, "Maybe this parenting stuff is harder than I thought."
He looks at her and said, "It'll take time to get used to. But this could take a couple more days until the guys figure this out. In the meantime, we gotta take care of them."
"But I'm not the motherly type!"
"Hey! You've been taking care of Sheldon when I couldn't! And now you got him and Amy to finally trust one of us and I am very proud of you for that!"
"Really?"
"Yeah."
She smiled and went to kiss him on the lips.
Penny sighs, "Maybe we should get advice from a real parent."
"Not my mother. Just the other day over a video chat, she made me upset and I talked back at her and she fully disowned me," Leonard sighs. "Guess I can talk with Mrs. Cooper or- OH MY GOD! I forgot about Sheldon's mother!" He panicked a little. "She didn't know about this yet!"
Penny asked worrying a little, "What are we going to do?"
Leonard sighs tiredly, "First thing tonight, I'm going to call her and explain everything."
She wrapped her arms around him sweetly and giving him another kiss asking, "Are we having friends over tonight?"
"Oh yeah, and I predict that I'll get interesting!" Leonard says with a hint of sarcasm and he returns the hug.